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United States v. Russell

600 F.3d 631 (2010)

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United States v. Russell

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
600 F.3d 631 (2010)

  • Written by Sharon Feldman, JD

Facts

Mark Russell (defendant) worked as an applied systems engineer at Johns Hopkins University for 10 years before becoming unemployed. Russell held a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and a master’s degree in strategic intelligence. Russell had no prior criminal history. Two months after losing his job, Russell initiated two Internet chat-room conversations with a police officer who identified herself as a 13-year-old girl. During the second chat, Russell performed a sex act via webcam and invited the girl to have sex with him. Russell drove to the address the girl gave him, emailed to say he had arrived, and was arrested. Russell pleaded guilty to one count of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and was sentenced to imprisonment and 30 years of supervised release. A special condition of supervised release specified that Russell could not possess or use a computer for any reason. In searching for post-release employment, Russell found that computer use was required for filling out most job applications and even occupations that were not highly technological involved computer use. Russell challenged the computer restriction as substantively unreasonable.

Rule of Law

Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Williams, J.)

Concurrence (Henderson, J.)

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